Why you should never use MongoDB (2013)

Re:Why you should never use MongoDB (2013) by avitzurel on Monday August 15, 2016 @11:13AM (#12290969)

Commented above what we used MongoDB for.

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Re:Why you should never use MongoDB (2013) by nailer on Monday August 15, 2016 @11:17AM (#12291008)

I think you use it as a cache, but not what I would define as a database.

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Re:Why you should never use MongoDB (2013) by vidarh on Monday August 15, 2016 @11:30AM (#12291101)

Over the last 20 years, the vast majority of databases I have seen have been partly or wholly used as caches in some sense or other.

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Re:Why you should never use MongoDB (2013) by nailer on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @05:50AM (#12296399)

I'd agree with that - DBs only record things that have actually happened elsewhere in most cases - but if a DB isn't considered reliable as a source of truth (in particular, if it's backed by another piece of software that is considered the source of truth) it's not a database and is a cache.

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